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As Big Data becomes even bigger in the healthcare space, high-level insight will become invaluable. Software developers have promising opportunity to open up the blind spots in revenue cycle for the management level, and a recent survey from Black Book (via Healthcare Finance News) shows us why, through a focus on CFO opinions on the subject.

In this week’s news, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduces information on Stage 3 Meaningful Use (MU), and the United States Postal Service (USPS) investigates a data breach that could include theft of healthcare information on workers.

In the news, Big Data is a tool in diagnosis and treatment, a Google Glass platform is auto-populating electronic health records (EHRs), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a study on the progress of health information exchanges (HIEs), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launches the full version of the Sentinel program.

A recent JASON study report, “Data For Individual Health,” outlines the progression of the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) in vision from one based on electronic health records (EHRs) and personal health records (PHRs), to a broader, more health-focused outlook, specifically around the development of a “learning health system.”

In the news, healthcare data breaches are reported in California and Illinois, the ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology) releases a report of health IT and adverse event reporting, and IT groups are divided over “Cromnibus” interoperability language.